{"id":70739,"date":"2023-11-20T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=70739"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:57:17","slug":"she-cranes-lined-up-for-lucrative-english-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/she-cranes-lined-up-for-lucrative-english-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"She Cranes lined up for lucrative English Test Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Regina Nalujja<\/strong><\/p>\n

English netball has con<\/span>firmed that they will be hosting Austral<\/span>ia, New Zealand and Uganda in a four <\/span>day tournament in January next year. <\/span>Among these, Australia are this year\u2019s <\/span>Netball World Cup champions, England <\/span>are runners up while New Zealand fin<\/span>ished fourth<\/span> before fifth-placed <\/span>Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they make it <\/span>to the compe<\/span>tition, the She <\/span>Cranes \u2013 who fin<\/span>ished fifth at the <\/span>World Cup \u2013 will <\/span>have a lot of lessons <\/span>to pick from their <\/span>outstanding oppo<\/span>nents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Winning games al<\/span>so brightens Uganda\u2019s <\/span>chances for better world <\/span>rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cleaning up<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that a normali<\/span>sation committee led <\/span>by lawyer and sports <\/span>administrator<\/span> Mo<\/span>ses Mwase is working <\/span>against time to see that <\/span>netball regains its sta<\/span>tus after the feder<\/span>ation\u2019s certificate was revoked by the National Council of Sports, there is a chance that Uganda will make it for the competition. <\/span><\/p>\n

Going by Mwase\u2019s response, the She Cranes will take part in the tournament despite the prevailing hardships.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning for the series,\u201dMwase told Daily Monitor.<\/span><\/p>\n

English head coach Jess Thirlby links great importance to the tournament. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying teams of this caliber is a significant step towards preparing for and realising our long term ambition,\u201d Thirlby was quoted by BBC as saying. \u201cAll three nations represent different challenges and this will be a great opportunity for us to come up against varying styles during what we hope will be a thrilling Series for our fans,\u201dshe added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The She Cranes are expected to take part in the Africa Netball Championships this month in Botswana. England Netball CEO Fran Connolly said hosting the event across two venues \u201cdemonstrates the growing support and interest in our sport in this country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Series will mark the first time inter-national netball has been held in Leeds and the first time since 2017 matches have taken place at Wembley Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Regina Nalujja English netball has confirmed that they will be hosting Australia, New Zealand and Uganda in a four day tournament in January next year. Among these, Australia are this year\u2019s Netball World Cup champions, England are runners up while New Zealand finished fourth before fifth-placed Uganda. If they make it to the competition, the She Cranes \u2013 who finished fifth at the World Cup \u2013 will have a lot of lessons to pick from their outstanding opponents. Winning games also brightens Uganda\u2019s chances for better world rankings. Cleaning up Now that a normalisation committee led by lawyer and sports administrator Moses Mwase is working against time to see that netball regains its status after the federation\u2019s certificate was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2301,1970],"class_list":["post-70739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-english-test-series","tag-she-cranes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}